Legal & Legal-AI Digest — Friday, July 24, 2026

Rabbit Hole Brief: Legal News · Jul 24, 2026 · 10m

A fast-moving briefing on the week's biggest legal and legal-AI stories: Microsoft's CELA choosing Harvey over every rival platform, record RELX earnings powered by AI products, the historic Hogan Lovells Cadwalader merger and a quieter consolidation landscape, the EU AI Act's looming August 2 deadline, an escalating AI-hallucination enforcement crisis, and the deeper tension between transformative AI and the hourly billing model that still dominates the industry. Sources: • https://legaltechnology.com/